One by One Hundred

ONE POEM, 100 LANGUAGES


Precious beyond measure is God’s Will,
None can undo its Power.
Precious beyond measure are man’s tears,
They alone can hug God’s Hour.

Precious beyond measure is man’s love,
Unveiling his golden face.
Precious beyond measure is God’s Gift:
His all-fulfilling Grace. –Sri Chinmoy


 


April 14th, 2009, City Hall Park, New York City.  In tribute to New York City's diversity and in honour of Sri Chinmoy's arrival in New York in 1964, the poem Precious was recited in over 100 different languages becoming a Guinness World Record in the process.

The Ceremony took place in lower Manhattan's historic City Hall Park and was oganized by Ashrita Furman, who holds the Guiness Record for having the most Guinness records. Guinness Officials were on hand to present a special citiation for achieving his 100th simultanous records.


Precious was translated into over 100 languages

“In New York City, we celebrate unity in diversity,” says Ashrita. “There are more than 170 nationalities represented in this city.”

 
Afrikaans 
Danish
Italian
Polish
Tongan
Albanian
Dutch
Japanese
Portugese
Tswana
Arabic
Estonian
Javanese
Provencal
Turkish
Asturian
Ewamian
Kannada
Quechua
Ukranian
Balinese
Ewe
Kazakh
Romanian
Uzbek
Bambara
Fijian
Kikongo
Rotuman
Venda
Basque
Filipino
Korean
Russian
Vietnamese
Bassa
Finnish
Ladin
Sami
Welsh

Belarusan

French
Lari
Samoan
Xho

emba

Gaelic, Irish

Latvian
Sanskrit
Yiddish
Berber
Gaelic, Scottish
Lithuanian
Shona
Zulu
Bengali
Galician
Macedonian
Sinhalese
Konkani
Bosnian
Gascon
Malay
Serbian
Manchu
Breton
Georgian
Malayalam
Simdhi
Romansh
Bulgarian
German
Maori
Siswati
Armenian
Burmese
Greek
Maori
Slovak
Swahili
Cambodian
Guarani
Marathi
Slovenian
Bambara
Catalan
Gujarati
Mongolian
Spanish
Bhutanese
Chinese
Hawaiian
Montenegrin
Swahili
 
Comorian
Hebrew
Ndebele
Swedish
 
Corsican
Hindi
Nepalese
Tamil
 
Creole
Hungarian
Niue
Teke
 
Cree
Icelandic
Norwegian
Telugu
 
Croatian
Indonesian
Panjabi
Thai
 
Czech
Inuktitut
Persian
Tibetan